This is where we don't want anything but evidence of your finest wood butchering in all its glorious, and photograph laden glory. Bring your finished products or WIP's, we love them all, so long as there's pictures, and plenty of 'em!

First dry run through of a modern Korean styled chest of drawers...4 large ones and 8 small. This one has been incredibly difficult to work out how to put it together, owing to the convoluted and complex way I've decided to make it The complexity lies in the fact that the verticals follow through from the floor (inc the stand, not shown 'cos I haven't made it yet ) to the top panels without a break:

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The easiest way I could think of to fix the front of the drawer frames to the legs was by using a pocket hole ( 'oles filled eventually)

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The ply/gash mdf 'boxes' are there to act as spacers to ensure the drawer frames are dead parallel and these will too will eventually be trashed. The spaces between the frames will be filled with brown oak panels and all edges will be softly rounded over using a 3.2mm rad router bit. Drawer fronts in Brown Oak as well, Ebony handles.

Google image search for Korean chest of drawers came back with quite a variety of chests. Most had many small drawers and quite a few had turned up ends to the top surface. Beyond that I have no idea what a Korean chest of drawers looks like and I can't guess much from your framework. Knowing what you have made in the past though I have no doubt it will be stunning.

Good to see that you are not twiddling your thumbs Rob. I am sure you will need to move house soon to accommodate your recent output.

cheers

Andy

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Andyp wrote:Good to see that you are not twiddling your thumbs Rob. I am sure you will need to move house soon to accommodate your recent output.

This is to replace a pine chest of drawers (made from laminated B&Q board) quickly lashed together when my daughter was at home some years ago whilst studying for her MA. No.1 son has subsequently 'claimed' the old one for his new gaff in Londres - Rob

These eastern designs that that you favour Rob really aren't my thing at all.........but I am very much looking forward to seeing the the 3-way mitred corner joints. Plenty of photos of that from setting out through the cutting and fitting, please!

Installing the oak drawer runners, the 12mm stuff for the small drawers are shown:

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There are two 19mm runners for each of the larger drawers:

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The lhs runner on the large drawers are screwed in place using UJK Technology 25mm long, washer headed pocket hole screws. These 'float' in a 6mm slot and allow each runner to be made parallel to it's fixed counterpart when the drawer is adjusted to run smoothly. This was one of the principal difficulties when I made SWIMBO's large 14 drawer CofD a couple of years ago - Rob

A short update on this one. The drawer boxes (twelve in total, eight small and four large) have been completed. Quarter sawn 8mm oak sides with through d/t's all round. That's a LOT of dovetails

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The large drawer at the rear has had the muntins fitted and glued, which needs to be done with the drawer box in place, otherwise it's a complete nightmare to make them line up with the runners. The two bits of mahogany veneer allow clearance 'twixt the frame and drawer sides when it's being fitted. With that in mind, the second big drawer...

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...is in the process of being fitted; a long, slow and tedious process as it's literally one shaving at a time from the top of the drawer using a 0.1mm feeler to test for the clearance as it slides in. I use a soft HB pencil to mark how far it goes in each time. The latest bit of workshop kit that SWIMBO treated me to ( on the p/t table) has been very useful ; it normally sits astride the lathe bed. Between drawers, there's also a part turned fruit bowl in oak on the lathe which has been has been finished with three coats of Osmo - Rob